Broadcom Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/broadcom/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:13:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Broadcom Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/broadcom/ 32 32 86113652 Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/04/why-tsmc-did-a-100-billion-deal-with-trump-on-us-chip-manufacturing/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/04/why-tsmc-did-a-100-billion-deal-with-trump-on-us-chip-manufacturing/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:08:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145399 All presidents of these United States have the bully pulpit from which to lecture the American people and, for the past century, the rest of the world about how the global economy and culture should work. …

Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/03/04/why-tsmc-did-a-100-billion-deal-with-trump-on-us-chip-manufacturing/feed/ 1 145399 Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:47:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145323 People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …

Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/feed/ 7 145323 Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:13:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145187 Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/feed/ 1 145187 How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/13/how-long-before-broadcom-makes-more-ai-compute-engines-than-nvidia/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/13/how-long-before-broadcom-makes-more-ai-compute-engines-than-nvidia/#comments Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:28:23 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145130 Chip maker and enterprise software player Broadcom announced its financial results for the final quarter of its fiscal 2024 today, which ended on November third, and all we kept thinking about as chief executive officer Hock Tan went over the numbers was the question in the title above. …

How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/13/how-long-before-broadcom-makes-more-ai-compute-engines-than-nvidia/feed/ 4 145130 VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:14:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144600 We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …

VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/feed/ 0 144600 Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:17:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144549 Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …

Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/feed/ 3 144549 Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:10:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144341 Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …

Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/feed/ 0 144341 With Thor 2, Broadcom Wants To Become The AI Network Adapter https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/28/with-thor-2-broadcom-wants-to-become-the-ai-network-adapter/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/28/with-thor-2-broadcom-wants-to-become-the-ai-network-adapter/#comments Tue, 28 May 2024 17:53:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144207 Aside from all of the buzz that optics get in datacenter networking, copper is still king of the short haul. …

With Thor 2, Broadcom Wants To Become The AI Network Adapter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/28/with-thor-2-broadcom-wants-to-become-the-ai-network-adapter/feed/ 3 144207 Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/06/pushing-pci-express-switches-and-retimers-to-boost-server-bandwidth/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/06/pushing-pci-express-switches-and-retimers-to-boost-server-bandwidth/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:02:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143768 Things would go a whole lot better for server designs if we had a two year or better still a four year moratorium on adding faster compute engines to machines. …

Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/06/pushing-pci-express-switches-and-retimers-to-boost-server-bandwidth/feed/ 7 143768 Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/17/micas-takes-on-arista-and-the-whiteboxes-in-datacenter-switching/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/17/micas-takes-on-arista-and-the-whiteboxes-in-datacenter-switching/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:29:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143126 The rise of the merchant silicon suppliers for datacenter networking and routing, which was spearheaded by Broadcom with chips and Arista Networks with switches, was not a foregone conclusion. …

Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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